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Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at> writes:

> On Tuesday 13 November 2007 21:04, Johannes Sixt wrote:
>> [PATCH 09/11] Allow a relative builtin template directory.
>> [PATCH 10/11] Introduce git_etc_gitconfig() that encapsulates access
>> 	of ETC_GITCONFIG.
>> [PATCH 11/11] Allow ETC_GITCONFIG to be a relative path.
>>
>> These need probably some discussion. They avoid that $(prefix) is
>> hardcoded and so allows that an arbitrary installation directory.
>
> ... and so allow that the compiled binaries are installed in any directory 
> that the user chooses.

If you can do that without breaking the tests (specifically, the
test script should pick up the version of git you just built,
not from /usr/bin nor /usr/local/stow/git/bin) that would be
great.